Dale Spender

Biographic Data

ID331861
NAMEDale Spender
GIVEN NAMESDale
FAMILY NAMESpender
SIGNATURESPENDER D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Theorising about theorising

    Dale SpenderCHAPTERTheories of Women's Studies2024

    Theories and perspectives do not fall from the air, ready-made, and what I am trying to do here is to reconstruct how it is I come to ‘know’, and to ‘theorise’ in the way that I do. There is, however, a danger in telling a tale in retrospect, and it is the danger that everything appears ordered, purposeful, meaningful. Yet my understandings neither ‘arrived’ nor were forged in a chronological fashion: nor does what I know and use comprise more th…

  • Women of Ideas

    Dale SpenderBOOKWomen of Ideas2024

    Originally published in 1982, with characteristic energy, humour and learning Dale Spender traces three hundred years of women’s ideas. She uncovers not only the ways and words of women, but the methods of men. While men control knowledge, she argues, they are in a position to take women’s ideas. If they like them, they use them; if they don’t, they lose them. Every fifty years women are required to reinvent the wheel, for every generation of wom…

  • Is There an App for That

    Open AccessDale SpenderARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2015

    In this Comment, adapted from a talk at the 2014 Australian Women Educators Conference, Dale Spender provides a brief history about four waves of women's movements in the West, the importance of education, and calls to power and financial independence for women. It is timely to recall that the history of western feminism has involved challenging the law's construction of woman and the social institutions that have supported it. Without insistence…

  • Nattering on the Net

    Dale SpenderARTICLECanadian Journal of Communication1997

    Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada

  • The Position of Women in Information Technology - or Who Got there First and with What Consequences

    Open AccessDale SpenderARTICLECurrent Sociology1997Cited by: 5

  • Nattering on the Net

    Dale SpenderBOOKNattering on the Net1996

    From the Publisher: Dale Spender examines the multimedia boom and its implications in the areas of class, race and gender. She asks: Will the Internet create virtual sisterhood and how can we use it for good

  • Anthologizing Early Women Writers

    Isobel Grundy, G Greer et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1994

  • I. Women and Madness

    Open AccessDale SpenderARTICLEFeminism & Psychology1994Cited by: 1

  • The Muses of Resistance

    Janice Farrar Thaddeus, Donna Landry et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1993

  • Life Lines

    Open AccessPaula Jane Byrne, Patricia Clarke et al.ARTICLELabour History1993

  • The writing or the sex?, or, Why you don't have to read women's writing to know it's no good

    Dale SpenderBOOKThe writing or the sex?, or, Why…1989

  • Mothers of the Novel

    Anne K Mellor, Dale Spender et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1988

  • Return to Coolami

    Dale Spender, Eleanor DarkARTICLEThe Women s Review of Books1987

  • Mothers of the Novel

    Betty Rizzo, Dale SpenderARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1987

  • Sadd Brown collection

    Open AccessDale SpenderARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1987

  • Journal on a journal

    Open AccessDale SpenderARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1987Cited by: 2

  • More on Sexism and Language

    Sarah Lawson, Dale SpenderARTICLEAmerican Speech1984

  • Some Recent Works on Historical Attitudes Toward Women

    Judith Farr Tormey, Judith Tormey et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1984

  • Women of Ideas

    T C Holyoke, Dale SpenderARTICLEThe Antioch Review1983

  • There's Always Been a Women's Movement This Century

    Jane Marcus, Dale Spender et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1983

  • Language and Gender

    Candace West, Cynthia L Berryman et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1983

  • Women of ideas and what men have done to them

    Dale SpenderBOOKWomen of ideas and what men have…1983

  • Past, present and future

    Open AccessDale SpenderARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1982

  • Education for What and What Education

    Annmarie Wolpe, Dale Spender et al.ARTICLEFeminist Review1982

  • Sexism and Linguistics

    Dale SpenderARTICLEEqual Opportunities International1981

    Where does knowledge come from? Who makes it up? What purpose does it serve? Unfortunately, while these are fundamental questions for us, they are questions that are rarely asked